Albert Camus It is hard to say if this sermon had any effect on our townsfolk. M. Othon, the magistrate, assured Dr. Rieux that he had found the preacher's arguments "absolutely irrefutable." But not everybody took so unqualified a view. To some the sermon simply brought home the fact that they had been sentenced, for an unknown crime, to an indeterminate period of punishment. And while a good many people adapted themselves to confinement and carried on their humdrum lives as before, there were others who rebelled and whose one idea now was to break loose from the prison-house. from The Plague Timeline [Courtesy of Michael Lawrence Chabinyc.]

1913 Born in Algeria.

1914 Father drafted into WWI and killed in France.

1930 Finished early schooling majoring in philosophy with a goal to teach.

1935-1938 Ran the Theatre de l'Equipe.

1938 Became a journalist.

1939 Volunteered for service in WWII, but rejected due to illness.

1940 Remarried wrote an essay on the state of Muslims in Algeria causing him to lose his job and move to Paris.

1941 Joined the French Resistance against the Nazis and became an editor of Combat an underground newspaper.

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var test=0; document.write(""); BiographyBibliographyCamus PagesOnline texts ... E-Mail Me!A Page About Albert Camus Albert CamusFrench philosopher and one of the most important authors of the Twentieth Century. In early 1995, I began surfing the 'net. Much to my surprise, I found no pages listed in any of the major web indexes at the time dedicated to the works of Albert Camus. I decided someone needed to create a page to link bits of information together. I don't claim to be an expert, and I haven't read much Camus since then, but this page carries on. Every time I think I'll pull it down, I check the stats and see that more than 7,000 people a month are clicking through this page, so I keep it here. Biography Born: November 7, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria Died: January 4, 1960 in an automobile accident After winning a degree in philosophy, he worked at various jobs, ending up in journalism. In the 1930s, he ran a theatrical company, and during WWII was active in the French Resistance, editing an important underground paper, Combat Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times". Check out the Nobel site for a copy of his acceptance speech, an in-depth biography, and other information.

Albert Camus Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French poseur who won the nobel prize for literature in 1957. He wrote novels, such as The Stranger and The Fall , and a few essays that might be called philosophical. He was closely associated with Sartre and the existentialist movement but he split with the latter and it is claimed that he was never an existentialist. I feel slightly sick about recommending him to anyone but the fact remains that I do like most of what he wrote. Books and Essays The Myth of Sisyphus Probably Camus' most famous piece of non-fiction, a short essay about a Greek myth. Please read the link first. I think that Camus is right to say that life is absurd - the reasons that would justify our manner of existence are missing. If Camus is saying, however, that it is possible to be lucid, content and still industrious in spite of this absurdity then I think he is wrong. As far as I am concerned, there is absolutely no way that Sisyphus, "the absurd hero", can be happy while he is pushing the rock up the hill. I think that it is only through being ignorant of our absurdity that we continue to live and be enslaved by the vain dreams that makes us push rocks. But then again, there is some question as to whether Camus says that we can realise the futility of our actions even while we are doing them.@I would like to suggest three ways that we can read Sisyphus. On the other hand, Camus says in Sisyphus that it is

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. new! Rating: Review It Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. ( Rating: Review It Integrity has no need of rules. ( Rating: Review It Don't walk in front of me because I may not follow. Don't walk behind me because I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ( Rating: Review It In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ( Rating: Review It More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. Notebooks 1935-1942 (1962), March 1940 entry

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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

Albert Camus,son of a working-class family, was born in Algeria in 1913. He spent the early years of his life in North Africa, where he worked a various jobsin the weather bureau, in an automobile-accessory firm, in a shipping companyto help pay for his courses at the University of Algiers. He then turned to journalism as a career. His report on the unhappy state of the Muslims of the Kabylie region aroused the Algerian government to action and brought him public notice. From 1935 to 1938 he ran the Theatre de l'Equipe, a theatrical company that produced plays by Malraux, Gide, Synge, Dostoevski, and others. During World War II he was one of the leading writers of the French Resistance and editor of Combat , then an important underground newspaper. Camus was always very active in the theater, and several ofhis plays have been published and produced. His fiction, including The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall

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